CULT2005 Ethics In The Social Sciences Case Study

Assignment overview

To pass this subject of study, you must achieve an aggregated grade of at least 50%. Although this assignment is not a mandatory submission, completing this assignment will give you the best chance of achieving this minimum requirement.

Choose a case study from the nine provided inAssignment 3: Case studies. Consider what dilemmas are presented by the case study, and how these issues might be informed by the theories examined in this subject. For this essay, you will need to choosetwoof the following theories to apply to the case study:

• Universal ethical egoism.
• Act utilitarianism.
• Rule utilitarianism.
• Divine command theory.
• Kant's duty ethics.
• Ross's prima facie duties.
• Nicomachean virtue ethics.
• Confucian role ethics.
• Indigenous Australian philosophy.

Extra readings and resources that may be used for this task are listed with each case study.

This assignment supportsSubject Learning Outcomes 1, 3 and 4.

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Assignment details

The following is a guide outlining what should be included within each section of your essay:

Theintroductionshould identify the case study that you have chosen and the two theories you are going to apply to the case. Detailed in marking criteria 1.

Thefirst section of the bodyshould detail the dilemmas presented by the case study. This is where you should provide some facts around the case. These may include academic material from the additional readings, legislation, policy, scientific/medical evidence, statistics, government and NGO reports, etc. This will be the foundation of your ethical analysis and is detailed in marking criteria 2.

Thesecondsection of the bodyshould analyse how your two theories apply to the case. This will include:

• applying all components of each theory to the case study
• the strengths and weaknesses of applying each theory to the case study
• providing consideration of the result of using each theory for all stakeholders impacted by the case study.

You can conduct this analysis separately or juxtapose both theories throughout the structure of the report; you have creative licence in expressing the analysis. This section should form the bulk of your essay and is covered in marking criteria 3, 4 and 5.

The final section of the bodyshould attempt to provide a feasible, workable and ethical solution to the dilemma. You will do this by synthesising the main arguments that you've previously made throughout the body, and should particularly draw upon the strengths discussed. This is covered in marking criteria 6.

A note on research

You are expected to read widely for this assignment (minimum of 8 references and 6 of these need to be scholarly references), and identify a range of reputable sources that will be useful to complete the essayseeAssignment Support: Academic literacyfor assistance. It would be particularly beneficial to make use of the readings provided to you for each case study, however, you are strongly encouraged to supplement the research by finding your own.

Wikipedia will not be considered a legitimate reference. Please be advised that websites are of inconsistent value and you need to be vigilant in your use of various websites (this includes blogs, YouTube, social media platforms, etc). Resources that are not peer-reviewed will be excluded from the 6 scholarly references required and will instead be counted as external references. You are strongly advised to use the WSU library web page to locate resources for this task.

Key information

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Note:the reference list is not included in the word count.

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